2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

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During the past 30 days, did you smoke cigars, cigarillos, or little cigars?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 3,616 146 4.3 3.5- 5.3 3,470 95.7 94.7-96.5
GENDER
Male 1,627 108 6.7 5.3- 8.5 1,519 93.3 91.5-94.7
Female 1,989 38 2.3 1.5- 3.4 1,951 97.7 96.6-98.5
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,132 101 3.5 2.7- 4.4 3,031 96.5 95.6-97.3
No 480 44 9.3 6.6-13.1 436 90.7 86.9-93.4
Body Mass Index
Underweight 60 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 945 44 4.5 3.1- 6.6 901 95.5 93.4-96.9
Overweight 1,201 46 3.9 2.8- 5.5 1,155 96.1 94.5-97.2
Obese 1,164 42 3.6 2.4- 5.2 1,122 96.4 94.8-97.6
Current Smoker
Yes 606 91 15.9 12.5-20.2 515 84.1 79.8-87.5
No 2,980 54 1.8 1.3- 2.5 2,926 98.2 97.5-98.7
History of CVD**
Yes 501 20 3.7 2.1- 6.3 481 96.3 93.7-97.9
No 3,095 126 4.5 3.6- 5.5 2,969 95.5 94.5-96.4
Binge Drinker
Yes 408 38 9.2 6.3-13.3 370 90.8 86.7-93.7
No 3,043 95 3.3 2.5- 4.2 2,948 96.7 95.8-97.5
Heavy Drinker
Yes 193 21 10.8 6.3-18.0 172 89.2 82.0-93.7
No 3,252 111 3.6 2.9- 4.5 3,141 96.4 95.5-97.1
COPD
Yes 355 22 5.4 3.2- 8.7 333 94.6 91.3-96.8
No 3,253 124 4.2 3.4- 5.3 3,129 95.8 94.7-96.6
Current Asthma
Yes 338 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,264 129 4.4 3.5- 5.4 3,135 95.6 94.6-96.5
Diabetes
Yes 578 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,040 132 4.7 3.8- 5.9 2,908 95.3 94.1-96.2
Functional Disability
Yes 1,222 50 4.1 2.9- 5.8 1,172 95.9 94.2-97.1
No 2,382 96 4.5 3.5- 5.7 2,286 95.5 94.3-96.5
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,307 46 3.1 2.2- 4.5 1,261 96.9 95.5-97.8
No 2,311 100 4.9 3.9- 6.2 2,211 95.1 93.8-96.1

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**History of cardiovascular disease includes history of heart attack or coronary heart disease or stroke.

†Chronic diseases include heart disease (heart attack/stoke/angina), current asthma, skin cancer, other cancer, COPD, arthritis, depression, kidney disease and diabetes.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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